Minimum design loads for buildings and other structures
By: American Society of Civil Engineers.
Contributors: American Society of Civil Engineers.
Series: ASCE standard
Publisher: The Society
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Structural engineering -- Standards -- United States.; Buildings -- Specifications -- Standards -- United States.; Standards, Engineering -- United States.
Description: This 1995 revision of the ASCE Standard Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures is a replacement of ASCE 7-93. This Standard provides requirements for dead, live, soil, flood, wind, snow, rain, ice, and earthquake loads, and their combinations, that are suitable for inclusion in building codes and other documents. The provisions pertaining to flood and ice loads are completely new as is the appendix on Serviceability. Significant revisions have been made to the wind, snow, and seismic provisions. The wind provisions represent a significant advance in the methodology of calculating wind loads and now utilize 3-second gust wind speeds. The seismic provisions of ASCE 7-93 have been revised to reflect revisions contained in the 1994 NEHRP Recommended Provisions. The commentary of each section has been greatly expanded to aid the user in understanding the provisions and their application.
Notes: "ASCE 7-95."

"Revision of ANSI/ASCE 7-93."

"Approved September 1995, published December 1995"--CIP data on t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.